What are some older games that can be found and emulated that were favorites to you, but not nessicarily a mainstream success or hit?

For me a couple of great RPG/Strategy games to recommend would be:

SNES:
Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons
Tecmo Secret Of The Stars
Pacific Theater of Operations II (P.T.O. 2)

Also, for a fun RISK like game:
Lords Of Conquest - Commodore 64

lordsathien wrote:

Someone else played Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons!!?? YES!! I lovd that game, but I usually wound up playing as the british privateer and sailing the world under the Queen's banner discovering stuff along Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Catalina was always my favorite. I used to be able to get her stats up, a fleet of Venetian Galeass ships, and the best gear in less than 4 hours.

For those who do not know much about it, New Horizons was made by Koei, who is famous for the Romance Of The Three Kingdom games, and the Dynasty Warrior series. This is a RPG/Stragegy game. The games takes place durring the age of discovery period of europe. And, you choose to play as one of the following characters.

(Thanks to Wiki)
In this game, there are six protagonists to choose from, each of them representing a different path or career featured in the game. They are listed as follows:

João Franco: Son of Leon from the first game, a Portuguese explorer sent by his father to follow the family's footsteps and discover the secrets of the lost Atlantis continent.
Catalina Erantzo: Former Spanish naval officer turned pirate, she avenges the loss of her brother and her fianceé and suspects that the Franco family is behind this scheme.
Otto Baynes: English naval officer, a privateer sent by Henry VIII in a secret mission to defeat the Spanish Armada and prevent Spanish hegemony in the European continent.
Ernst Von Bohr: Dutch teacher and cartographer, he is set to make a journey to far lands and with this experience create a map of the entire world.
Pietro Conti: Italian treasure hunter, he inherited a huge debt from his father and is set to travel for treasures and other secrets in order to cover the debt.
Ali Vezas: Turkish merchant, he grew as a orphan in extreme poverty. With the help of his friend, he decides to become a trade merchant and find his lost sister.
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The RPG comes from your character building stats and abilities over time, and the strategy comes from ship battles and duels. The duels in basically a paper-rock-scissors affair, 3 attacks and 3 defenses, when if the right defense is picked then the attack is perfectly blocked. I plays out as a card game, very cool. And, you do not need to play the original Uncharted Waters to enjoy this game.

JEW wrote:

gain ground was hot shit. I loved how you had classes like "ninja", "samurai", "adventurer", and then you had "african." super dodge ball is a beat em up?

You killed people in Super Dodge Ball!

I think that classifies as a Beat em up, don't you?